Sack holder or supporter.



No- 638,676. Patented Dec. 5, I899. J. W. WINEGARDEN.

SACK HOLDER 0R SUPPORTER.

(Application filed Nov. 10, 1898.]

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JAMES IV. \VINEGARDEN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SACK HOLDER OR SUPPORTEII.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 638,676, dated December5, 1899. Application filed November 10, 1898. Serial No. 696,0'71- (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W. W INEGAR- DEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SackHolders or Supporters for Use in Groceries, Candy Stores, &c., of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to appliances for holding or supporting sacks forconvenient use in groceries, 850.; and its objects are, first, to sostore the sacks for convenient use in groceries that flies or dustcannot get access to them and soil them; second, to provide a cabinetfrom which the sacks may be readily removed for use, and, third, to soarrange the cabinet that but one sack can be removed at once. I attainthese objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the cabinet. Fig. 2 isa transverse section of the same on the line XX of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is alike view of the upper portion of the same, somewhat enlarged, to showthe relative positions of the several parts. Fig. at is an edge view ofa sack, showing the manner of folding for packing, which is takenadvantage of in the manipulation of my cabinet; and Figs. 5and 6 showmodified appliances for conducting the sacks out of the cabinet.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of the cabinet I make use of a receiving-box A,having a hinged door A at the back that is so arranged that it may beswung open, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, for theintroduction of the sacks. This door is provided with a spring E, thatis arranged to press against the back of the bundle of sacks B to holdthem against and force them toward the actuating-slide C. I usuallyplace a support, as F, between the spring E and the sacks for thepurpose, first, of carrying them toward the transfer-slide in a uniformpack, and, second, to avert the danger of tearing them by having thespring come in direct contact with them.

Paper sacks are folded for shipment so that the bottom forms adownwardly-projecting flap, as shown at b in Fig. 4:- I take advantageof this feature for forcing the sacks out of the cabinet, as follows: Iform a transfer slide, as C, which is provided with sliding bearings c,that encircle a standard or standards D, so that the slide may be easilymade to reciprocate vertically, and to facilitate this action I place aknob or handle C on the slide and pass it out through slots C" in thefront of the cabinet in convenient position to be manipulated asrequired. In Fig. 1 this knob is shown at a, in its normal position, ata in position to engage the slide with the flap b on the sack, (see alsoFig. 3,) and at a as having returned to its normal position and forcedthe sack out of the slot g in the top of the cabinet. The upper end ofthe transfer-slide is bent slightly toward the sacks, as indicated at'c' in Fig. 3, so that it cannot but pass under the flap b on the sackas soon as it passes below it. This form of slide is forced downward byhand by means of the knob hereinbefore described and is forced upward bymeans of a properly-applied spring, as indicated at D in Fig. 2, whichmay be made of any convenient form or applied in any convenient mannerwithout departing from the spirit of my invention, the form here shownbeing simply convenient for illustration.

For the passage of the sacks out of the cabinet I form a slot, as g,through the top of the cabinet, and to avert the danger of more than onesack passing out at once I place a spring G in this slot substantiallyas shown in Fig. 3, so that sacks are, as they pass out through theslot, forced against the side of the slot toward the transfer-slide, andbut one can pass out at once, for the reason that the tension of thespring is sufficient to prevent its passage except when acted directlyupon by the transfer-slide, as hereinbefore described.

That I do not desire to restrict myself to the particular constructionof the slide hereinbefore described is plainly evidenced by the formsshown in Figs. 5 and (5. In Fig. 5 I show an eccentric 0', having acrank for its manipulation, the action of which will be readilyunderstood from the drawings, and in Fig. 6 I have shown how the sameresult may be accomplished by the use of a lever,

as 0 the eccentric in the first instance being shown as acting directlyupon the flap of the sack and the lever in the second instance beingshown as acting upon the slide 0, that supports the transfer-slide andtraverses the supporting-rod D.

Having thus fully described myinvention, What I claim as new, and desireto protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In a cabinet for grocers sacks, a receptacle for the sacks, a slidewithin said receptacle the upper end of which bends to engage the foldat the bottom of the sack, guideways for supporting said slide, springsfor actuating the same, a handle attached to said JAMES W. W'INEGARDEN.

In presence of- WALTER L. ALLEN, I. J. CILLEY;

